Open heart surgery requires cutting open your chest to access and repair your heart. This is an extensive surgery that may last as long as 3-5 hours. Recovery from open heart surgery may take 4-6 ...

Four teams were assembled at Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute to save a mother. — -- In any emergency medical procedure, doctors are quick to make a plan and jump into action. But for the ...

After four devastating miscarriages, Courtney Hayes, 33, and her husband Josh were shocked to discover that they were pregnant with a baby boy. The couple, who had already been through so much, was ...

Runner gets open-heart surgery after childhood congenital heart defect surgery. Feb. 6, 2013— -- Like many relatively recent college graduates, Jane Lee wasn't always on top of her doctor's ...

"It wasn’t that dramatic,” the 69-year-old said of the surgery Daniel Wright/Shutterstock Sandra Bernhard said she underwent open-heart surgery The performer said her procedure was scheduled in ...

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) performed the state’s first minimally invasive procedure to treat severe tricuspid regurgitation, a life-threatening condition caused by a leaky ...

Surgeons at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center have completed the first fully robotic heart transplant, a breakthrough ...

With significant advancements in heart treatment, the days of open-heart surgery as the only option for complex heart conditions are mostly behind us. Today, minimally invasive procedures can be used ...

Open-heart surgery is a general term that refers to any surgery where a surgeon accesses the heart by opening the chest. They’ll make an incision in your chest and then cut through the breastbone and ...